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When Did News Become Gossip?

5th January 2015

A busy November and December working on two shorts and a Christmas show put me into a de facto media blackout the past six weeks or so. Maybe it's just returning to it with fresh eyes after some time under a news rock, but the news, even on supposedly superior outlets like Radio 4, seems to have turned from "news" to "gossip".

It first occurred to me a couple of days ago. With the run of A Christmas Carol at Trinity Theatre winding down, the veil had started to lift from my eyes a little. One of the first bits of reality to creep back in was the headline of a local newspaper on a sandwich board outside a brand of WH Smith: "OAP, 95, dies after being hit by van".

Obviously this is a very sad story, and my heart goes out to his family and friends, but even from my fleeting glance, I wondered if it is "news"...

It felt more like the sort of thing I would here in a pub - "Did you hear about that guy who was hit by a van...?"

Midnight Blue Released

20th December 2014

One of my longest-running projects has come a step closer to completion with the release of the Christmas Special for Midnight Blue, a live-action web series about the exploits of a suburban superhero who takes up the role following a case of mistaken identity.

The Christmas Special was initially written shortly after the first draft of the web series way back in 2009 making it by far my longest in-development production. The series has come close to entering production several times in the past, but scheduling issues with other productions and film festivals, and the difficulty casting the main role had kept it in development.

Midnight Mass Online Premiere

19th December 2014

The short film Midnight Mass based on the script I wrote for last year's Literary Advent Calendar is now online and available to watch.

The short, starring Juliette Finn and Ollie Bignell as two runaways who meet a priest and parishioner (Kris Robertson and Alison Seddon) when they break into a church late one Christmas Eve, was shot on location at the beautiful St Luke's Church in Tunbridge Wells.

Hard Work Pays Off

18th December 2014

This is the third of Trinity's shows I have been heavily involved in, and the most involved I have been with one of their shows thus far, working on the in-show animation and projections, running the chaperoning of the young cast, and releasing three promotional videos, keeping me busy for much of November and all December.